The Trump administration has lifted its freeze on roughly $10 billion in federal childcare and social services funding for five Democrat-led states, prompting a legal fight over whether the lawsuit challenging the funding halt should continue. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services sent nearly identical letters to officials in California, Colorado, Illinois, […]
Several Maine Senate candidates running to replace former Democratic nominee Graham Platner have spoken out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since an agency-involved shooting killed a Colombian man in the state on Monday. The top contenders, such as former Maine state Sen. Troy Jackson and former Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) announced Tuesday that he will oppose an amendment aiming to cut off aid to Israel. In a letter to his colleagues, Jeffries wrote that the amendment, introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), is “overly broad” and could limit “humanitarian aid, refugee resettlement, peace-building and U.S. embassy operations.” The Democratic […]
Leading Senate Democrats are accusing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of illegally interfering in the midterm elections, saying that he is using his office to protect a GOP majority in the House. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, filed a Hatch Act election integrity complaint […]
Two of the United States’s leading news distributors suppressed negative coverage of former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner for months, according to a new study. Platner was the Democratic Party’s nominee in the race against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in the 2026 election. He ended his campaign last week after months of controversies, which culminated […]
President Donald Trump is meeting Iraq‘s new prime minister, Ali al Zaidi, at the White House on Tuesday morning, after applauding his rise in the Middle East. The two men will speak to the press around 11 a.m., after Trump described al-Zaidi’s April victory as the “beginning of a tremendous new chapter between our Nations […]
An appeals court on Tuesday revived hundreds of lawsuits alleging that children developed autism or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder after their mothers took Tylenol during pregnancy, overturning part of a federal judge’s decision that had dismissed the cases. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, an appointee of former President […]
Supreme Court Associate Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are set to testify on Capitol Hill at both 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday. The two justices will appear before the House appropriations subcommittee on financial services and general government this morning for a budget hearing, and then they will head over to the […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed a one-year moratorium on data center construction in New York on Tuesday, making the Empire State the first state in the country to press pause on building the artificial intelligence infrastructure hubs. “As data center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for […]
EXCLUSIVE — North Carolina Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley is using his first ad purchase of the general election to ding Democratic opponent Roy Cooper on taxes and affordability. In a 30-second spot first seen by the Washington Examiner, Whatley, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, goes after Cooper, the state’s former governor, […]
